John Ruskin Quotes
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.
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A lot of the offers I get are for these innocent 16-year-olds, and I turn down a lot of stuff because it's the same-old same-old. The whole point of wanting to act is trying to change it up, and I want to experience everything.
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Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.
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Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
